Rewind & Grow – Agrifood connect, side event of the Italian Tech Week promoted by Spoke 7

The event offered a different kind of matchmaking, with the aim of truly focusing on the experience of startups and investors and thus creating a fruitful opportunity for exchange.

The difficulty of navigating calls for proposals, the dialogue with VCs and business angels, the strategic choice of pivoting: on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, six innovative projects shared their stories at Rewind & Grow – Agrifood connect, a side event of the Italian Tech Week promoted by NODES's Spoke 7 together with *beeco, ToSeed & Partners and ISIRES with InnovUp as institutional partner.

The event offered a different kind of matchmaking, with the aim of truly focusing on the experience of startups and investors and thus creating a fruitful opportunity for exchange.

Opening with institutional greetings were Danilo Demarchi, Polytechnic University of Turin, and Luisa Torri, University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, who presented the NODES project and the 0to1 Acceleration Sprint program that has taken place in recent months.

Moderating the event was *beeco CEO Marco D’Angelo, who also introduced the ecosystem and the partners of the path.

Entrepreneur Luigi Galimberti instead offered an inspirational pitch on the importance of agrifoodtech innovation and the challenges facing the sector.

Because starting a startup means continuing to try, to challenge oneself, as Altered materials, Wiseside, PeptoFarm, KoraLabs, ESAC, and LOOOPS demonstrated in their pitches: the six innovative projects or already established startups explained their objectives and the difficulties they faced.

In conclusion, through reverse pitches, investors Giovanni Ferri, representing ToSeed & Partners, and Stefano Alexander Martini of LifeGate, shared a complementary, not opposing, point of view.

The event took place in the Maxwel conference room at the Polytechnic University of Turin and brought the agrifoodtech focus to the Italian Tech Week.